We are very pleased to announce that registration for the Swiss HLG Winter Conference 2016 is now open!
This year the conference title is "PATIENT CENTRICITY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT?"Opportunity or Threat? and we warmly invite you to join us from January 31st to February 2nd 2016 at the Jugendstilhotel Paxmontana, near Lucerne. You will have the opportunity to establish and foster personal contacts in a completely privatized location. We have a fantastic program including personal development and plenty of opportunities to network in an inspiring environment.

The event brings together leading executives from the healthcare industry, patients and patient advocacies to discuss, debate and explore how patient centricity affects business development and deal-making.

Come join us! You will have the opportunity during 2½ days to establish and foster personal contacts in a completely privatized location. We have a fantastic program including a pre-conference workshop, personal development and plenty of opportunities to network in an inspiring environment.

The conference will start on Sunday afternoon with the opening keynote, delivered by the CEO of Nestlé Skin Health SA, Humberto C. Antunes, followed by the personal development session "Improve Your Personal Branding" or "ow to make your presence shine" with Gabriela Müller Mendoza, professional speaker & coach.

Conference website

Under the main conference title we will examine and discuss how patient centricity affects BD&L within healthcare organizations and how such organizations are handling it from various perspectives.

You will experience speakers who will discuss the topic from various angles: What is patient centricity? Where does it come from? What is or should be the definition of patient centricity? Patient centricity: Hype or Hope?

We will get new insights and tools for our business development activities and deal-making and we warmly invite you to join us from Sunday January 31st to Tuesday February 2nd 2016 at the Jugendstil-Hotel Paxmontana, near Lucerne. You will have the opportunity to establish and foster personal contacts in a completely privatized location.

Michael was diagnosed aged 12 with the incurable bowel condition Crohn's Disease. In late 2011 he became the 11th person to undergo a small bowel transplant in the UK at The Churchill Hospital in Oxford. More recently he is a two time cancer survivor.He started blogging about his journey through Bowel Transplant and his blog has over 100,000 followers. Michael uses social media to develop global on line peer to peer communities.He is the co-chair of the NHS England Digital Services user council and helped implement the first skype clinics in UK. In 2013 Michael founded connected device startup 11Health having developed sensor technology for ostomy patients. In 2015 he was announced as Stanford Medicine X first Patient-in-Residence.

You may also want to take the opportunity to become a member or renew your membership for 2016: The Swiss HLG membership entitles you to a CHF 450.- discount applied to the full conference fee, almost entirely compensating the individual membership fee.

Take advantage from the optional pre-conference workshop "From your valuation to your assets, or from your assets to your valuation?" which aims not only at using a simplified and elaborated rNPV model but also at understanding various asset features which are frequently underestimated for a valuation.

Business Development and Innovation Opportunities in Consumer Healthcare / OTC

London

Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th March 2016

The Pharmaceutical Licensing Group (PLG) is pleased to announce details of a new OTC conference and networking event in conjunction withOTCToolbox. This international event is the first to focus exclusively on business development and innovation in the consumer healthcare/OTC market, and it comes at a time of unprecedented change for the industry.

A prestigious panel of presenters will take part in this inaugural event to be held in London on 3rd & 4th March 2016. The keynote presentation will be given by Roberto Funari, Executive Vice-President, Category Marketing at RB (formerly Reckitt Benckiser).

Roberto Funari,Executive VP, Category MarketingRB

Jonathan HagueVP Open InnovationUnilever

Day one will concentrate on Market Trends and Innovation, including presentations from Jonathan Hague, Unilever and Andy Tisman, IMS Health, which will conclude with the usual PLG networking reception and dinner for all guests to continue the days talking points and make new contacts. Day two will look at Deal Trends and Company Strategies, with presentations, from among others, Boehringers Ingelheim Consumer Health Care and Thornton & Ross’ CEO Dieno George.

PLG Members can enjoy a 10% discount off the standard registration fee PLUS an early registration rate of £337.50+VAT is available until 4th December 2015.

We anticipate that this new event will prove beneficial to many of our members, especially those who have any involvement in the OTC arena, as well as providing excellent networking opportunities with BD&L colleagues from the UK, Europe and around the World.

The full programme and registration details are attached plus all details are available at the PLG website, OTC EVENT DETAILS

All Europharm members are also welcome to participate to the 8th European Pharma Licensing Symposium on the 21st & 22nd September 2016. For Europharm members we have negotiate a special discounted delegate fee ending 30th June of 765 euros instead of 915 euros!!

We are already looking forward to meeting you in September 2016 in Brussels,

This year’s EPLS will be hosted in Brussels at the Radisson Blu Royal located, a short walk from the Grand Place, the Royal Palace and a number of other attractions. Central Station is 400 metres away, offering guests direct access to Brussels Airport and many of Europe’s main rail lines.

The EPLS is renowned for and is specifically designed to optimise Networking opportunities enabling delegates to meet senior executives directly involved n Licensing and BD, from all of Europe.

The Programme

This year the Executive Committee have once again put together an exciting programme of presentations and social events. The two day event will feature 5 sessions with presentations, case studies and a panel discussion on different aspects across the industry covering:

The main gala dinner will be held on Thursday evening at the elegant Théatre du Vaudeville, a 2 minute walk from the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and 1 minute from the Grand Place. This stunning theatre was inaugurated in 1884 and has since been restored to its former Victorian glory. Guests will be welcomed with a networking drinks reception before dinner is served in the Theatre.

REGISTRATION DESK NOW OPENWe anticipate significant interest and strongly advise to book now to avoid disappointment and to take advantage of the Early Bird Discount.

Inartis, Swiss HLG, in collaboration with Agire and CP Start-up, are excited to present their joint Start-ups conference, to be held in Lugano, Ticino from 9.30am - 16.00pm, on the 24th of November, 2016.

This conference and workshop is the expression of a collective desire by organisers to promote Life Science Start-ups in Ticino. Each organisation is bringing its expertise and knowledge to share with and support entrepreneurs.

The venue for the conference is the beautiful LAC (Lugano Arte e Cultura), the new home of the Lugano Theatre, Opera and Museum, situated right on Lugano Lake.